To date, scholars in higher education have examined the ways in
which students' experiences in the classroom and the human capital
they attain impact social class inequalities. In this book, Jenny
Stuber argues that the experiential core of college life-the social
and extra-curricular worlds of higher education-operates as a
setting in which social class inequalities manifest and get
reproduced. As college students form friendships and get involved
in activities like Greek life, study abroad, and student
government, they acquire the social and cultural resources that
give them access to valuable social and occupational opportunities
beyond the college gates. Yet students' social class backgrounds
also impact how they experience the experiential core of college
life, structuring their abilities to navigate their campus's social
and extra-curricular worlds. Stuber shows that upper-middle-class
students typically arrive on campus with sophisticated maps and
navigational devices to guide their journeys-while working-class
students are typically less well equipped for the journey. She
demonstrates, as well, that students' social interactions,
friendships, and extra-curricular involvements also shape-and are
shaped by-their social class worldviews-the ideas they have about
their own and others' class identities and their beliefs about
where they and others fit within the class system. By focusing on
student' social class worldviews, this book provides insight into
how identities and consciousness are shaped within educational
settings. Ultimately, this examination of what happens inside the
college gates shows how which higher education serves as an avenue
for social reproduction, while also providing opportunities for the
contestation of class inequalities.
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